Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We find that the expulsion of Jewish professionals had long …

This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present … of the millennium, income concentration in Germany has been on the rise and is today among the highest in Europe …

This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our … identification strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous city-by-cohort variation in the Jewish population in Germany as a unique …

employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era …

While works councils provide a highly developed mechanism to promote workplace democracy, research on their … decision making has the potential to foster workers political participation in civic society. Our study for Germany indeed …

trusting attitude than West Germans. This suggests a negative effect of communism in East Germany versus democracy in West … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not … more than a decade of democracy, have the same levels of social distrust as shortly after the collapse of communism. In …